Month: June 2017

There’s so much first-rate philosophy fanned out across both Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, but theirs comes down to this: The first part… just. Works. Be excellent to each other (and then after that… party on). Instead of judging and saying people do stupid shit, or criticising …

I’ve written about gratitude on this blog more than I have my love for Snufkin or my hate for Murphy’s Law – Here, here, here, here, here, here, oh and also here. Reason is that when you’re grateful, it’s impossible to feel hard done by. Gratitude crowds out all negativity. It’s impossible to feel shitty, …

If you’ve ever had to do something hard, what doesn’t matter is how long it’ll take to learn or how hard it is. What does though is asking yourself if you really want to, if it’s worth it and Why. If you do, and you’ve examined and figured out why you …

The people we meet all make and shape the person who we are. And the most inspirational and virtuous ones are ideally the ones we try to live like. I’ve been fortunate enough to have met and gotten to know many people who are exactly those two things. One of the …

Even possibly the greatest thinker in history, Socrates, never thought he was right. And neither did he care about convincing others he was, or about winning the argument. His was a life of constant questioning, curiosity and examination. Whether it was right or wrong, ‘Whatevs’, as Socrates probably never said. …

If you think to yourself ‘I’m invincible’, what’s to say it’s not true? Whatever you think about yourself, it’s true. But I’m not saying in terms of the physical you. Because if someone walks up to you and shoots you with a handgun, point blank, right in the face, or walks …

If you ever think ‘I’m too old’, ‘It’s too late to start’ or ‘I’m not good at anything’: The Only time it’s too late is when you’re dead Homeboy Colonel Sanders was 65 and suicidal when he worked out what he could do better than anyone. And you and every …

The present simple grammar form is actually crucial here. You and I are constantly changing so what you did yesterday or even an hour ago (and most importantly, why) can be different now. Same thing goes for the future. You don’t know why you’re going to do what you do …

This is Xavier from the movie, The Spanish Apartment (or its original French title, L’Auberge espagnole): But Xavier isn’t just Xavier. Just like you aren’t just you: Everything you do, have done, or will do is a collection of the data and influence and guidance of people upon people, things upon things. It’s why …

Going back in time is really, really hard. Even Cher couldn’t work out how to do it. These guys (the two up the front) did it: But it’s not the same. So even though you can’t go back and change the past, you can work and change your future. People complain about …